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This is my results from Selectsmart's religion quiz:
1. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (100%)
2. Seventh Day Adventist (86%)
3. Orthodox Judaism (85%)
4. Roman Catholic (84%)
5. Eastern Orthodox (84%)
6. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (83%)
7. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (80%)
8. Jehovahs Witness (65%)
9. Islam (65%)
10. Bahai (50%)
The important thing to remember is that we were created in order to have glorified bodies on the last day, not to spend eternity as disembodied spirits in a Platonist world of forms, which would be contrary to ancient Jewish thought.
Theory of forms - Wikipedia
IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL - JewishEncyclopedia.com
Not only did the Anabaptists believe in soul sleep, but Martin Luther did as well, as did ancient Arab Christians.
Martin Luther and William Tyndale on the State of the Dead.
If you were to die tomorrow and then be raised again on the last day, you would perceive no sense of time whatsoever in the intermediate state. This was exactly the point of Luther, based on the many passages of scripture which suggest that soul sleep is true.
Luther quoted Ecclesiastes 9:5, “The dead know nothing,” among other scriptures, partly in order to defend his rejection of purgatory and of praying to Mary and the saints.
Since there were no commas in the original Greek, Luke 23:43 can be read like this:
Luke 23:43
Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise.”
Just one placement of a comma makes a world of difference.
Since Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus and the apostles, it shouldn't be surprising if Aramaic translations of the Gospels retained the original, intended meaning of Luke 23:43.
Ancient Arab Christians accepted the doctrine of soul sleep, perhaps because they weren't influenced by Greek philosophy.
It was because it contradicted praying to the saints that soul sleep was ultimately condemned.
This is from the Aramaic Peshitta translation:
http://www.peshitta.org/pdf/Luqach23.pdf
We should also keep in mind that the Bible forbids communicating with the dead and that accounts of near-death experiences all seem to contradict each other, reflecting their personal religious backgrounds.
When Saul consulted the sorceress to conjure up the ghost of Samuel, it was likely a demon and not the real Samuel.
She falsely predicted that Saul would be killed by the Philistines when, in reality, he ultimately killed himself.
1. Orthodox Quaker - Religious Society of Friends (100%)
2. Seventh Day Adventist (86%)
3. Orthodox Judaism (85%)
4. Roman Catholic (84%)
5. Eastern Orthodox (84%)
6. Mainline - Conservative Christian Protestant (83%)
7. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (80%)
8. Jehovahs Witness (65%)
9. Islam (65%)
10. Bahai (50%)
The important thing to remember is that we were created in order to have glorified bodies on the last day, not to spend eternity as disembodied spirits in a Platonist world of forms, which would be contrary to ancient Jewish thought.
Theory of forms - Wikipedia
IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL - JewishEncyclopedia.com
Not only did the Anabaptists believe in soul sleep, but Martin Luther did as well, as did ancient Arab Christians.
Martin Luther and William Tyndale on the State of the Dead.
If you were to die tomorrow and then be raised again on the last day, you would perceive no sense of time whatsoever in the intermediate state. This was exactly the point of Luther, based on the many passages of scripture which suggest that soul sleep is true.
Luther quoted Ecclesiastes 9:5, “The dead know nothing,” among other scriptures, partly in order to defend his rejection of purgatory and of praying to Mary and the saints.
Since there were no commas in the original Greek, Luke 23:43 can be read like this:
Luke 23:43
Jesus answered him, “Truly I tell you today, you will be with me in paradise.”
Just one placement of a comma makes a world of difference.
Since Aramaic was the language spoken by Jesus and the apostles, it shouldn't be surprising if Aramaic translations of the Gospels retained the original, intended meaning of Luke 23:43.
Ancient Arab Christians accepted the doctrine of soul sleep, perhaps because they weren't influenced by Greek philosophy.
It was because it contradicted praying to the saints that soul sleep was ultimately condemned.
This is from the Aramaic Peshitta translation:
http://www.peshitta.org/pdf/Luqach23.pdf
We should also keep in mind that the Bible forbids communicating with the dead and that accounts of near-death experiences all seem to contradict each other, reflecting their personal religious backgrounds.
When Saul consulted the sorceress to conjure up the ghost of Samuel, it was likely a demon and not the real Samuel.
She falsely predicted that Saul would be killed by the Philistines when, in reality, he ultimately killed himself.
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